Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Berlin, Germany / Remote (EU time zones only!)

Engagement: Permanent employee or freelance contractor

mediafellows is a leading software provider for the media and entertainment industry. Headquartered in Berlin, we provide cloud-based content management, marketing, and distribution solutions (SaaS) for broadcasters, studios, and distributors worldwide. Our tools are used to screen, sell, and securely manage high-value media assets.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help provision, secure, automate, and operate the AWS-based infrastructure supporting our MediaStore platform and related services. A strong focus of this role is infrastructure security, operational reliability, and automation.

Your Responsibilities

• Provision, maintain, and secure AWS-based production infrastructure
• Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant cloud environments
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
• Collaborate with developers to bring new services and features into production
• Help establish and spread DevOps practices across engineering teams
• Support and troubleshoot large-scale production environments
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions
• Improve infrastructure security, hardening, and operational resilience
• Support infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives
• Ensure reliable environments for media processing and streaming workloads

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in provisioning and operating production multi-service infrastructures in the cloud
• Strong Linux / Unix administration skills
• Deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services
• Experience with REST APIs, SOAP/XML, JSON, YAML
• Strong understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Experience with Git and modern version control workflows
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with Docker and containerized environments
• Familiarity with orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, firewalls, load balancing, and infrastructure security
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (NewRelic, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience in troubleshooting production incidents and large-scale operational issues
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Nice to Have

• Security-focused DevOps background
• Experience in media delivery or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with security hardening and infrastructure security best practices
• Experience with security audits (TPN, ISO 27001, etc.)

What we Offer

• Competitive salary package with perks and/or bonus options.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• A key role in an international team of industry veterans.
• The opportunity to work with high-profile content from major global studios.

How to Apply

Please send us your application via email to [email protected] containing:

• A short introduction about yourself, including references
• List of AWS / DevOps project references you worked on
• Your availability and preferred setup (employee or contractor)
• Your expected salary or hourly rate